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Fitness Journey after Third Baby

February 21, 2020 6 Comments

Fitness Journey after Third Baby, sharing how I am keeping up to be the healthier version of me and how I was able to do it.

I just wanna let you all know I will not be able to do this without the support of my husband. He always pushes me and motivates me. Even before we got married. I told him that if I become unhealthy and if I will go out of the healthy BMI (body mass index) it means he doesn’t care about me anymore because he is not noticing it.

So right after pregnancy, I waited to get a clearance from my doctor when I can start working out again. Before then, while o=still on maternity leave. My in laws, me and my husband worked on improving our home gym. As you can see on the picture below and also to get you updated in case you missed the first part of my fitness journey here.

Let me start of with my diet. I do not particularly follow a certain diet. I do have the body boss cookbook and just got the recipes that I really liked. I used to follow this before I got pregnant. I do meal prep, my favorite is just baking mixed vegetables like, asparagus, mixed bell peppers, Brussel sprouts, yellow squash, mushroom. I drizzle olive oil, Parmesian cheese and chili powder and salt and pepper. This usually becomes my lunch for the work week and ceasar salad for dinner or protein shake after workout, the oat meal and eggs for breakfast. I cut down on sweets, this is hard because it is my weakness.

My workout routine is I follow the bodyboss method. I have been really trying to incorporate this every week. My husband and I give ourselves at least 40 mins a day 4-5x a week for this. I have not returned to my pre-pregnancy weight but I feel so much better now and has more energy.

It is just a matter of giving time to work on yourself a day and also eating healthy. We are also trying to be a good example to our children as a healthcare professional. I have been seeing a lot of young people being sick, their condition is worst that most of the elderly patients that I always work with. It is about lifestyle.

I hope I was able to inspire you guys specially the mamas out there.

Thank you for stopping by.

Simply,

Christianne

Lifestyle, Outfit

Valentine’s Day Gifts for Her

January 31, 2020 No Comments

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SUNGLASSES/ BRACELET/ PERFUME/ CANDLE/ BLOUSE/ EARRINGS

Finally I was able to make a blog post. Since we are two weeks away from Valentine’s day I made sure I have this gift guides for all of you. The past week was really tiring and busy week for us, we were in a rush to prepare for Andi’s baptism the past weekend and it was a week preparation. I will make a separate post for that and tell you all why it was like that.

Now back to the gift guide, here I chose a few that will definitely a hit for all the ladies out there in your life. Have you all though why always the ladies gets all the gifts and attention. We also have men in our lives that supports us and gifts us love and attention and for that I will also make a separate post for it. Working on it for my next weeks post so stay tuned.

These items here are all my favorite and also like for myself so calling hubby if you are reading this…. this is the hint for you. LOL!

Hopefully I can get back on track again to give you guys fresh content this coming February. Thank you all so much for supporting my blog and see you again on the next post.

In case you want more gift guide, that ones I made for past Holiday is still good here . I hope you were able to find this post helpful. May all of you have a wonderful weekend!

Simply,

Christianne

Lifestyle, Outfit

Family Game Night Ideas with Kids

January 22, 2020 No Comments

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ON ADI: MERMAID ONESIES

ON AIDAN: BATMAN ONESIES

ON ANDI: BABY ONESIES

ON ME: PLUSH PAJAMA SET SIMILAR HERE

HOME STUFF:

ELECTRIC LOG HEATER, SHERPA BLANKET, LIVING ROOM RUG

We as a family love the outdoors, we always go to the park, we bike roller skates and roller blades and things like that. So when Winter time comes and we wanna have fun. Game night is a good idea for us with small kids.

A hit for us is the JENGA classic, this one is a heart stopper and is truly a fun game to play. second is the UNO cards. The others are the SORRY and and CONNECT 4.

It was also a good idea to do it by the fireplace if you have one. I just wanna say if you do not wanna deal with getting real logs, we bought this Electric heater log that looks like a real logs on fire and it also serves as a heater at the same time.

The sherpa blanket we were sitting on was also the comfiest idea ever during this season. It gives us comfort and warmth and can always snuggle with it afterwards. Don’t forget also that movie night is a hit just like what I posted here last Christmas.

I hope I was able to give some game ideas to play specially for moms who have little ones like me. These games will surely be a hit for them.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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Top 8 Activewear to keep you Inspired

January 13, 2020 No Comments

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AMAZON ESSENTIALS TOP/ AMAZON ESSENTIALS BOTTOM/ ADIDAS SHOES / UNDER ARMOUR SQUEEZE BOTTLE/ AMAZON ESSENTIAL LIGHT WEIGHT JACKET/ AMAZON SUNGLASSES

This 2020 one of my goal is to be back in shape and stay healthy. I know I am not the only one here. Even before I got pregnant with Andi I was able to establish a healthy lifestyle and I felt more energetic. I want be like that again and I can say that after the Holiday. I am very much sticking to it now, no more back to back parties.

That being said, one of my motivation is wearing nice workout clothes. And if you are too, this post is for you! Even though I am working out in our home gym, I feel like wearing the comfiest and stylish active wear makes me feel that I am serious about what I am aiming for. Which is to be the better version of me. That is why I have come up with all the active wear brands that I have tried and I want to try next…

Check out my top 8 here…

OLD NAVY

ATHLETA

GAP FACTORY

NIKE

PUMA

LULULEMON

UNDER ARMOUR

OUTDOOR VOICES

I love getting workout wear from Old Navy and Gap Factory because of the price points and the ones I put here are pretty much on sale. My top 3 are Nike, Adidas and Puma as they are really good quality products. I have just started using lululemon and they are good quality too. I have yet to give Athleta and Outdoor voices a try and once I do I will let y’all know.

In case you have not seen my other activewear post or athleisure that are similar to this post. check them out ~~here~~ and here.

Thank you once again for stopping by and have a wonderful week ahead.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

Lifestyle, Outfit

Things I am investing for myself this New Year

January 10, 2020 2 Comments

Things I am investing for myself this New Year. These items are the things that will make me a better version of myself and yours too.

WORKOUT CLOTHES

Just like this one that I posted here. I already started working on myself 6 weeks after having Andi but due to the holiday, I was inconsistent. This is actually my ultimate goal after pregnancy and always every new year. I always say myself health is wealth. And when I am fit, I always feel I have a lot of energy and being a mom of 3. I ahve to have all the energy that I can get.

SHAPEWEAR

Having a good shape wear is needed specially after the Holidays. I know I did accumulate some bulges here and there. I can definitely use it because we are planning on having Andi baptized this month and I know I will be wearing a dress then. I just want to feel good and best.

SELF IMPROVEMENT BOOKS

I also always do this just to boost my self confidence. It is actually a good idea for me to read new books specially something like this to get me organize in some way. To work my goals for this year and be able to achieve it.

I believe on investing on all these items as they will help me get better and up my game. The reason why I am sharing this is because I believe they are effective and will definitely be a good thing to work on.

Thank you all so much for stopping by and see you next week, DMV, let’s enjoy the weather tomorrow it is gonna be Spring in January.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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Welcoming New Year 2020

January 1, 2020 No Comments

Happy New Year 2020! It was such a fun New Year’s Eve celebration at home. We haven’t welcomed the New Year at our house in the last 5 years. We have 10 family friends and we have a tradition of spending it at one of each houses so we do rotations every year. We also just started a tradition like 3 years ago of having one family sponsor every family a t-shirt for everybody and using the lucky color of the year and also putting our last names on it.

So now that I have shared how we welcome every New Year. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself again in case you are new to my blog. Hi, my name is Christianne and I am a mom of 3. I’m originally from the Philippines and now living here in the US with my husband and our 3 lovely children with our dog mojo.

My goal this year is to be able to provide y’all an ever green content you can surely use in your everyday life be it for fashion (personal style) which I usually share the most, lifestyle, family and travel. I want to be a good resource person for all those topics I mentioned. Also, I am not usually sharing a lot of family pictures but recently since I became pregnant and have Andi now. The whole family became ok posting in pictures with me. I used to like beg them to have a decent photos that is why you rarely see them on my blog.

I also wanna inspire a lot of mamas out there. I always get this question how I can manage having a full time day job, this part time blog and be a mom of three. I think I have posted this topic before but will get into details in the next few episodes of my blog. Also check out my previous post on how I prepared for the NYE party.

Thank you all so much for your continued support to my blog. Once again, Happy New Year!

Simply,’

Christianne

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Simplychristianne 2019 Year in Review

December 30, 2019 No Comments

This is my last blog post for this year. Doing reflections on how this year was for my blog and how I have been to y’all. I know I fell short this year since I became pregnant I know I slacked so much. I lost my consistency in posting on my blog and also the ever green content that I should have been sharing with all of you.

This year started not so good as I was still recovering from the lost of my dad back in November last year. Then a month after that I found out I was pregnant and had morning sickness and that really threw me off on my routine. I really lost myself this year and was just posting a lot of fluff here and there just to have something to post. I am just being with y’all. I did give something good for the pregnant ladies like me back then.

This 2020 I have a lot of goals for myself and my blog. I will do my best for y’all to be the best resource for all the good deals for fashion, lifestyle, motherhood and travel content I may have that I know will be beneficial for everyone.

Here are some of the Highlights I have this year… Not so much though It was pretty much about my pregnancy…. So thankful to have baby Andi. I was really thinking I was done when I had Aidan. I only wanted two if I have a boy and a girl already but hubby convinced me good and so thankful for that.

February was the month I announced here that I was pregnant here…

March was my gender reveal, found out we were having a girl….

April to August just pretty much sharing a lot of pregnancy updates and a lot of maternity outfit inspirations.

and then August I popped Andi out…

I will make sure this coming 2020 y’all will find a lot of ever green content from me. Thank y’all for sticking out with me. See you next year!

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

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Merry Christmas through the Years

December 25, 2019 No Comments

Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas!!! Sharing all our yearly Family Christmas photos since I started blogging in 2015. Thank you all for you support and for being a part of my blogging family. Cheers to all of us and to the coming New Year!

Simply,

Christianne

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Christmas Movies to Watch with your Family

December 18, 2019 No Comments

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COUNT YOUR STARS CARDIGAN

LOUNGE WEAR SET SIMILAR HERE

MAMA BEAR MUG SIMILAR HERE

NY AND COMPANY SLIPPERS

WAYFAIR COFFEE TABLE

THRESHOLD AREA RUG

In two more days kids will be on Christmas break and that means a lot of snuggling and cuddling at home. Also we wanna entertain them as well and ourselves included. We have watch a lot of them already and wanna share with you guys if you are looking for one.

On Netflix: Good watching with little kids….

KLAUS this is heart warming.

THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES there will be part 2 next year, this one really entertains us all.

CHRISTMAS BREAK-IN good family love movie

For a Rom-com fanatic like me….

A CHRISTMAS PRINCE, A CHRISTMAS PRINCE THE ROYAL WEDDING AND A CHRISTMAS PRINCE THE ROYAL BABY they are all connected so make sure to watch them all.

another one is THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS this one is really cute.

on DISNEY PLUS

We really enjoyed watching NOELLE and THE SANTA CLAUS.

This ones are really good with the kids and it is funny too. Perfect for the whole family.

on PRIME:

They have all the HOME ALONE movies and it was still really entertaining and we have been watching it over and over again together with THE GRINCH.

So if you are on a hunt of a good Christmas movies specially with your kids, these are the ones that we really loved and I am sure you will too.

And if you are still looking for last minutes Christmas gift ideas, check out my post here.

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you again next time.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half)

Lifestyle, Outfit

Our First Christmas Card

December 16, 2019 No Comments

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Why did I call this our First Christmas Card? Every year since I started blogging. It became a tradition that we dress up and we pick a spot in the house for photo shoot. But I never make it into a Christmas card. It has always been a digital copy only that I use on my personal Facebook to greet our family and friends. This year , since we are now a family of 5 plus Mojo our dog so 6. I decided we can do this every year then.

I wanted to post the picture of the finish product of the Christmas card but it did not arrive on the expected delivery date. It actually got shipped on the supposed to be date of delivery. So I will update this post once I receive them so I can show them all to you.

As for the theme, I just thought of a plaid party for us since all my kids already own it. My husband and I plus my in laws just went to the thrift store and got ours from there.

Also, I though about Adi and I wearing cowboy boots and since we have this cabin like part of the house. I set it up like this so it will be more looking like our theme. Kinda like a farm house and I just added all these Christmas decorations like the Little Christmas tree, galvanized buckets.

How about you? Do you always do Christmas cards or no? Do you have any family traditions that you do every year? Also in case you did not see the last year’s family photo… it is here.

Thank you so much and y’all have a wonderful week ahead.

Simply,

Christianne

Photos: Novel (my better half) and my Father in law